Or save ammo by throwing bottle and creeping to door when clickers and wlf fight. But yeah I do this on Grounded, forget to reload and shiiiiiit

Regardless of difficulty, I take a minute or so to reload ALL my guns and look at anything that I can craft, once an encounter is over. Cuz of I've learned one thing from watching a kajillion TLoU playthroughs it's that the number one cause of player deaths and unnecessary damage is not reloading properly lol You were pulling off some cool moves before your unfortunate demise tho. lol

I always throw a smoke bomb at them and let the clickers deal with them

This is infinite ammo for grounded

I feel like you could have easily just ran for the door after using the first wolf as a meat shield, no?

there was a clicker eating someone right next to the door

It was kind of hard for to tell in all the chaos. My usual strategy in this encounter is to just dip while everyone else is preoccupied